| HI | HB1864 | Intro | Amends the definition of renewable portfolio standard to be a percentage of electrical energy generation, rather than sales. Amends the renewable portfolio standard interim goals for 2030 and 2040 to accelerate the adoption of renewable energy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 8:30 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1844 | Intro | Creates the clean energy and energy efficiency revolving loan fund under the administration of the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority. Repeals the building energy efficiency revolving loan fund. Allocates a portion of the barrel tax to the clean e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 8:30 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1861 | Intro | Extends the sunset date for the Coffee Berry Borer Pesticide Subsidy Program until June 30, 2025, for the purchase of pesticides containing Beauveria bassiana to combat the coffee berry borer. Extends the program manager position to June 30, 2026. Ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 8:30 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1887 | Intro | Prohibits the importation of unroasted coffee into the State, makes it a class C felony, and imposes a fine for violation of the prohibition. Authorizes DOA to adopt rules to allow for the importation of partially roasted coffee into the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 8:30 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1898 | Intro | Requires the Department of Agriculture to adopt rules to protect the welfare of livestock transported to, from, or between any island of Hawaii. Requires the department to adopt interim rules.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 8:30 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1875 | Intro | Requires the governor to appoint the governor's coordinator on Native Hawaiian affairs to coordinate responses to issues that impact Native Hawaiians and Native Hawaiian culture across state departments and agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 10:00 am]
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1870 | Intro | Requires the thirty-day lapse or termination notices for long-term care policies to be sent by certified mail or commercial delivery service, or other method of delivery requiring proof of delivery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 8:30 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB1880 | Intro | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the operations of the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission and for 2 full-time equivalent positions on the Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 10:00 am]
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1922 | Intro | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for efforts to substantially reduce and eradicate certain invasive species in the county of Maui.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 8:30 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1904 | Intro | Establishes The Uniform Employee and Student Online Privacy Protection Act that adopts uniform laws on protecting the online accounts of employees, prospective employees, unpaid interns, applicants, students, and prospective students from employers a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 9:00 am]
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB1977 | Intro | Addresses the State's physician shortage by establishing the College of Medicine of the University of Northern Philippines Medical Student Sponsorship Program within DOH for medical students who successfully graduate from the College and make a ten-y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 9:15 am]
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1978 | Intro | Specifies that the family court has jurisdiction in proceedings concerning the custody or guardianship of an immigrant child pursuant to a motion for Special Immigrant Juvenile factual findings requesting a determination that the child was abused, ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 8:30 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB1924 | Intro | Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for search and rescue expenses for persons who require rescue after leaving a hiking trail to enter a prohibited area or hiking on a trail closed to the public.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 10:00 am]
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1859 | Intro | Establishes a 3-year Department of Health pilot project to demonstrate new toilet and sewage treatment technologies and to expedite demonstration projects. Appropriates funds. Repeals on 6/30/2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1848 | Intro | Requires new developments to plan for the impacts of projected sea level rise and restricts development in areas significantly affected by projected sea level rise. Amends policies and objectives related to coastal zone management to reduce residenti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1858 | Intro | Requires the Sea Grant College Program, with the Department of Health, to develop and conduct a two-year comprehensive statewide outreach program that provides science-based information and understanding of sewage contamination sources in nearshore m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1867 | Intro | Amends the total amount of hours per week an individual must be employed to be a qualified caregiver under the kupuna caregivers program from thirty to twenty. Appropriates funds for the proper implementation of the kupuna caregivers program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB1874 | Intro | Lowers the age of crimes against seniors to sixty years of age, and makes certain criminal offenses against seniors applicable regardless of the perpetrator's knowledge of the victim's age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB1869 | Intro | Amends the definitions of "certificate of disability" and "person with a disability" to allow a person with a disability that does not limit or impair the ability to walk and needs special accommodations to enter and exit their vehicle to be issued a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB1865 | Intro | Requires the department of health to establish an Alzheimer's disease and related dementia training program for care workers whose work involves extensive contact with participants or residents. Specifies training curriculum and continuing education ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1866 | Intro | Appropriates funds for the healthy aging partnership program to further the program's role in improving the health and well-being of Hawaii's kupuna.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB1873 | Intro | Establishes an outreach program in the department of health to inform physicians and appropriate non-physician practitioners participating in medicare that comprehensive care planning services for those with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1872 | Intro | Appropriates funds to the office of the long-term care ombudsman for six full-time (6.0 FTE) ombudsman specialist positions; two each on Oahu and Hawaii and one each on Kauai and Maui.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB1871 | Intro | Requires the executive office on Aging to report the assessment of progress toward the reported goals and state recommendations going forward; appropriate funds for one fiscal year to the executive office on aging.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB1868 | Intro | Lowers the age a person can be exempt from jury duty from eighty years of age or older to seventy-five years of age or older.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB1946 | Intro | Amends the amount of transient accommodations tax revenues allocated to the counties from a specified sum to capped reimbursements to the county for expenditures related to specified county public services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Tourism & International Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1947 | Intro | Appropriates funds for programs, ceremonies, and activities commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1902 | Intro | Extends the prohibition for large capacity magazines to all firearms, rather than just pistols. Provides an exception to the prohibition for law enforcement agencies and duly authorized officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1945 | Intro | Allocates TAT revenues into the tourism special fund and appropriates funds for the Hawaii tourism authority (HTA) and Hawaii Lodging and Tourism Association to address homelessness in tourist and resort areas, subject to private matching funds. Requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Tourism & International Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1907 | Intro | Prohibits the operation of a helicopter for commercial purposes without a valid instrument rating from the Federal Aviation Administration. Subject both a violating individual and an individual's employer to penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB1998 | Intro | Authorizes forfeiture of certain ERS benefits, pursuant to court order, for state or county employees and designated beneficiaries who are convicted of an employment-related felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB2012 | Intro | Establishes an Assistant Superintendent position within the Department of Education for Hawaiian language. Appropriates funds for the position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB2020 | Intro | Requires the state procurement office to establish a past performance database. Requires that the determination of certain contract awards through the procurement process consider a contractor's past performance. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB1936 | Intro | Establishes a P-20 agriculture education coordinator position within UH-CTAHR. Establishes a two-year farm to school grant pilot program within DOA to sunset on June 30, 2022. Appropriates funds for the farm to school grant pilot program and the P-20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB1916 | Intro | Increases the amount of tax credit allowable for household and dependent care services from $2,400 to $4,800 for a qualifying individual and from $4,800 to $9,600 for two or more qualifying individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1955 | Intro | Establishes a framework for the regulation of electric foot scooters by the State and counties. Amends definitions of "moped" to exclude electric foot scooters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB1952 | Intro | Designates all currently undeveloped watercourses and lands unsuitable for development as wildlife reserve sanctuaries for which development is prohibited so that those lands may serve as a permanent refuge to wildlife. Establishes procedures to obta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1894 | Intro | Establishes a 5-year beginning farmer training program to be administered by the Department of Agriculture. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB1900 | Intro | Requires a defendant's incarceration history certificate be provided to a court prior to sentencing or resentencing. Requires a court to determine a defendant's credit time, compute the expiration date for a defendant's specified sentence, and includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1888 | Intro | Appropriates moneys to DOA for the pesticide subsidy program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2024 | Intro | Expands the circumstances where a minor may consent to no cost emergency shelter and related services to include cases where the provider is coordinating with child welfare services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB1921 | Intro | Requires any hunting guide or hunter to obtain and submit to the Department of Land and Natural Resources written permission from any private landowner upon which the hunting guide or hunter is engaged in guide or hunting activities. Requires the Div...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1903 | Intro | Establishes within the Department of Public Safety the Adult Corrections Officer Professional Conduct Incentive Pilot Project to provide bonuses for professional conduct and exemplary attendance. Requires report. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1944 | Intro | Allocates funds from TAT revenue to the Hawaii Tourism Authority, rather than the Special Land and Development Fund, to improve certain state resources and services. Requires DLNR to submit an annual list to HTA of proposed projects for the HTA Strat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Tourism & International Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2010 | Intro | Appropriates funds to provide scholarships for students pursuing a Hawaiian language degree through the University of Hawaii's Hawaiian language programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB1917 | Intro | Establishes a refundable income tax credit equal to twenty per cent of the federal child tax credit allowed and properly claimed on a taxpayer's federal tax return.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1956 | Intro | Establishes a requirement that persons under 21 years of age who use tobacco at a public school or public school function attend a tobacco education course. Persons under 18 years of age shall be accompanied to the course by their parent or guardian....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB2011 | Intro | Establishes the governor's coordinator on Native Hawaiian advancement, who shall be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1926 | Intro | Requires any state agency that requires a person to submit information, data, or other materials to create a form, including instructions, that is written in plain language, to facilitate the collection of that information, data, or material.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB1976 | Intro | Appropriates funds to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Office of Community Services to contract with nonprofit service providers for legal counsel to assist and represent lowincome immigrants in immigration proceedings and immigrant ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
